Pangako Sayo June 05, 2015

soap opera series produced and broadcast by the Philippine media network ABS-CBN. It is dubbed the first “teleserye” on Philippine television. It starred Kristine Hermosa and Jericho Rosales. The soap, which ran from 2000 to 2002, spanned 476 episodes at 30 minutes each. The series re-aired on ABS-CBN at evening from 2006 to 2007 and on its affiliate TFC. A rerun was aired from March – August 2011 on ABS-CBN, in the late evening timeslot (1:30 A.M. – 3:30 A.M.) every day, with an alternate ending. The series re-aired again in the cable channel Jeepney TV last October 2012. The show posted an all time high rating of 64.9% during its September 2002 series finale, posting the country’s second highest rating for any episode by a TV series next to Esperanza, and the highest rated finale episode for any Filipino TV series.

The promise of love begins with a simple, aspirational girl, Amor de Jesus (Jodi Sta. Maria), who fell in love with a rich man, Eduardo Buenavista (Ian Veneracion). Their whirlwind romance bore a child but was put to an end after all the challenges and objection of Eduardo’s affluent family. Amor loses all hope when Eduardo marries Claudia Salameda (Angelica Panganiban) and her daughter, Maria Amor, dies. Years passed and Amor’s daughter turns out to be alive and will grow up as Yna Macaspac (Kathryn Bernardo). Yna meets Eduardo and Claudia’s son, It is popular to many Filipino viewers because of its love triangles between the main characters and the endless love between Amor and Eduardo, Yna and Angelo, and Claudia and Simon. The finale had a power outage as fans rushed home to watch the 1 hour finale and then re-aired at 10:00 PM – 11:15 PM in 2002 and also reaired the finale again on a Saturday at 8:00 PM – 9:01 PM (Philippine Time) which engulfed Filipino viewers as they waited for the powerful moments.